German Romantic Poets

In this unique selection, popular giants of the Romantic movement—Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, and Heine—are joined by an array of poets who deserve a wider audience in English, including some formidably talented women.

German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song: the poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known musical compositions of the nineteenth century. In this collection, we see German Romantic poe…